[
UK
/sˌuːpəfˌɪʃɪˈælɪti/
]
NOUN
- lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
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shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something
he ignored the wound because of its superficiality
How To Use superficiality In A Sentence
- In a world befogged by superficiality, moments of clarity are few and far between.
- But the superficiality became readily apparent in yesterday's absurd statement by the Employment Minister, Michael Forsyth.
- Despite the great quality of its prose, the story itself rings with superficiality, a certain lack of true profundity that can be covered but not overcome.
- The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism, and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers.
- Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
- When it was first shown, their work seemed to represent a new low in superficiality and attitudinizing.
- It's bright and shiny and colourful, and it frequently makes me smile, and it's honest about its utter superficiality.
- The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers. The 20 Best Progressive Novels
- Unfortunately, the effect - which heightens the superficiality of the film - distances viewers from the action as opposed to pulling them into it.
- (Evidently addicted to CSI, she rabbited on at length about GSR -- but her superficiality is exposed here.) Archive 2009-11-01